TURKS AND PERSIANS BRITISH INFLICT CONSIDERABLE LOSSES ON THEM.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 56, 8 March 1915, Page 8

TURKS AND PERSIANS BRITISH INFLICT CONSIDERABLE LOSSES ON THEM.

(Received March 8, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 7th March. The India Office announces : " The Awhaz garrison made a reconnaissance on the 3rd, and found 12,000 Turks, including contingents of disaffected Persian tribesmen, at Ghadir. . They attempted to cut us off, but we kept them at bay until a retirement was effected. The enemy lost 300 killed and 600 wounded. Our loss was five British and one Indian officer killed and 63 men killed and 119 wounded — mostly Indians. " A cavalry reconnaissance on the same date, twenty- five miles north-west of Basra, drew 1500 horsemen, when our concealed infantry, with machine and field guns, inflicted heavy loss on the enemy. We lost four British and two Indian officers killed and six men wounded." [Awhaz/ in the province of Turkestan, is seventy miles north-east of Basra, which is a' town in Asiatic, Turkey, 'oh' the west bank of the Euphrates, fifty-six miles from its mouth, in the Persian Gulf. Basra is spoken of as likely to be the terminus of the Bagdad railway.]